[cf100clunk]

> by the time someone got around to putting up a sign, you're at least hours if not days after the fact

Not a safe assumption at all, and your term ''got around to'' seems to imply that those who have lost a pet might be lackadaisical i.e. I finally 'got around to' taking out the garbage.

Everyone needs to put the date-gone-missing on their missing pet posters.

[smeej]

"Got around to" means "did alllllll the other things they thought might find a pet more quickly." There's nothing lackadaisical about it. It's just well down the list of things you try immediately after a pet is lost.

I have never seen a date on such a poster and it would never have occurred to me to expect one or put one if I lost my own pet. You seem to be the outlier with this expectation.

[cf100clunk]

I wish your pets long, happy lives safely at home.